Oral History Interview with Mario Contreras, July 18, 2016
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Mario N. Contreras was born in 1951 in the south side of Odessa, Texas (the “original” barrio of Odessa). He grew up in that neighborhood and graduated from Ector High School in 1970. Afterward, Contreras attended Odessa College, Sul Ross State University, and Baylor University before graduating from the University of Texas-Permian Basin in 1974. Contreras briefly joined the Brown Berets of Odessa during the late 1960s. After college, Contreras became the first Mexican American salesman in West…
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Date:
July 18, 2016
Duration:
1 hour 30 minutes 39 seconds
Creator:
Contreras, Mario; Wisely, Karen & Zapata, Joel
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TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library